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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING% e- T6 R5 Y2 d5 }* u. S
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
. C( h3 p1 `& e" X( s7 |NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
* R# T- Z# h' w' X4 w5 `+ P- u0 b2 ^, `charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!. ^8 ^- m. _4 z8 l5 @
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
1 |) ]7 [* }! Y& Q% Lbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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' T( F, f; Q4 @7 y" M+ r”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.# `+ x) l+ F0 o8 C; P! a
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over5 h) r4 H! W# K2 n* v3 f! W
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be; ?# T" D1 k+ p, U( {! `. r7 |
pure luck.
8 K5 R$ N X. d- B7 I5 `6 Q3 a”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers* y, Z8 v$ h! c# C
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
) k$ T' C& M# m. L# ~# LThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin& X* D$ [# v& P: ]9 x! o: u9 W
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall( e- z' N& W f, v' ?
Street watchdogs.
, U4 j8 y- P* g, ?$ S9 |”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
2 d7 [6 `) u9 qMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing: Z1 |, ~/ r! t" O$ ?
investigation.
) E, K8 | u, j& ]7 _When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
4 c5 s" E1 |1 e- y# k. g# wfour-hour confession.+ [0 `' e+ l$ Q2 i' `
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
( `' c1 h$ j+ [" A: Cknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
9 T- J0 t6 O" D. A( a2 Dknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
3 I: s0 p+ N8 O+ { Q”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to. w0 d1 w+ q2 d) v' m4 A
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
# { W8 B8 k8 h" c6 ein the moment.”
" }% o, D) C, f$ oIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of& U& f h5 m& @, X
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
+ A) y7 g* @4 E! b2 SAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”/ h- G8 P) d5 X5 F' S6 m7 u) X# |
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
! u; ^: A7 r: _) L' t! Dthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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